memory profiling - R-devel | R Mailing Lists

Fri, May 26, 2006 5:22 AM #

I'm interested in playing around with memory profiling in R-devel (as described 
at http://developer.r-project.org/memory-profiling.html) and was trying to 
figure out how to compile R-devel so that I can use the 'tracemem()' function. 
But I can't figure out how/where to set R_MEMORY_PROFILING.  Is it on the 
configure command line?

Thanks for any help,
-roger

Roger D. Peng  |  http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/

Brian Ripley

Fri, May 26, 2006 7:48 AM #

On Fri, 26 May 2006, Roger D. Peng wrote:

I added -DR_MEMORY_PROFILING to CFLAGS in config.site.  An alternative is 
to add this to DEFS in Makeconf after configuring.

Probably in due course there will be a way to do it via configure and 
config.h, but I do not see one.

Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Thomas Lumley

Mon, May 29, 2006 8:27 AM #

On Fri, 26 May 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

Yes, adding the -DR_MEMORY_PROFILING to CFLAGS is the intended way to do 
it at the moment. In due course there will be a configure option, but 
definitely not until after useR.

 	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle